208 LEPIDOPTERA INDICA. 



and the upper inner eml of the third spot, the fourth spot well outwards, the others in 

 an even curve ; both wings with brown terminal line, a sub-terminal series of lunules, 

 and between them another series of smaller lunular marks, two black spots at the anal 

 angle, rather heavily capped with metallic blue scales, outer margin quite smooth. 



Female. Upperside paler than the male. Foreiving with very broad costal and 

 outer marginal black borders. Ilindwing with the costal space blackish, the band 

 narrowing gradually round the apex and down the outer margin. Underside as in the 

 male. 



Expanse of wings, ^ ? 1^ to I-yq inches. 



Habitat. — Burma, Malay Peninsula, Borneo. 



Distribution. — The type locality is simply India, Bethune-Baker records it from 

 Mergui and Tenasserim, it is in Doncaster's collection from Labuan and Singapore, 

 and in coll. Druce from Kina Balu and Sandakan ; it resembles A. ntosia, Hewitson, in 

 its sex mark, colour and markings, but it has no tail, and its genitalia is somewhat 

 different. 



ARHOPALA ANTIMUTA. 

 Plate 690, figs. 2, <? , 2a, $ , 2b, $ . 



ArJiopala antimuta, Felder, Reise, Nov. Lep. ii. p. 233 (1865). Bethune-Baker, Trans. Zool. Soc. 



1903, p. 98. 

 Arhopala davisonii, de Niceville, Butt, of India, iii. p. 280, frontispiece, fig. 135, ^ (1890). Doherty, 



Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1889, p. 419. 

 Arrhopala davisoni, de Niceville and Martin, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1895, p. 469. 



Imago. — Male. Upperside dark purple-blue, costal and outer marginal line finely 

 black. Cilia black, with pale tips, abdominal fold pale brown. Underside dark brown, 

 with a purplish tint, markings very slightly darker than the ground colour, very 

 indistinct. Forewing with the hinder area pale, the usual three spots in the cell, with 

 a sub-costal spot above each of the two outer ones, a discal series of six spots, the 

 second and fourth well outwards, a sub-marginal double series of still more indistinct 

 spots. Ilindwing with four sub-l)asal spots, the fourth well inwards, followed by three 

 spots in a line, a curved bar at the end of the cell, a discal series of eight spots, in a 

 nearly even, outward curve, the first two disconnected, the rest touching each other, 

 the fifth well inwards, being the only irregularly placed spot of the series, the seventh 

 angular as usual just touching the sixth and joined to the eighth which is near the 

 abdominal margin, a double series of sub-marginal marks, the outer one very obscure, a 

 black anal spot, and a black spot in each of the two following interspaces, aU capped 

 with metallic blue scales ; marginal line brown, with a pale inner line, no tails. 



Female. Upperside paler purple-blue, with a violet tint. Forewing with broad 

 blackish costa and outer margin. Ilindwing nearly all blackish, the blue colour in the 



